Kamala Harris, like Joe Biden, had to pick a person who is a bigger
idiot than she is.
She found one. His name is Tim Walz.

'Blundering Tim Walz dragging down Harris campaign — while brilliant JD
Vance helps Trump surge'

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'As the latest polls Sunday showed Donald Trump and Kamala Harris neck
and neck with just 23 days to go until the presidential election,
Democratic spinmeisters are trying to calm the bedwetters, and Barack
Obama has been dispatched to scold black men for not being impressed by
his protégé.

But as uncomfortably close as this election is, one thing is certain:
Tim Walz has to be the worst VP pick on record, in stark contrast to JD
Vance.

If Harris loses, her self-indulgent decision to reject popular
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro in favor of a running mate even dumber
than she is will go down in the Democrats’ Hall of Fame as the worst own
goal of all time.'

'What the choice of running mate tells you about each candidate is
profound.

Trump’s choice of the brilliant Senator Vance tells you he is
comfortable in his own skin, secure about his own achievements and not
threatened by a younger, more articulate MAGA exemplar.

Vance pulled himself out of a chaotic Appalachian childhood plagued by
poverty, domestic violence and drug abuse to attend Yale Law School,
find success in business and a happy marriage. '

'Since he was unveiled as Trump’s surprise VP pick, against the advice
of most donors and advisers, he has hit the ground running and proven
his worth in dozens of interviews pushing back on media lies with grace
and deadly precision.

Vance’s ‘brilliance’
For instance, on Sunday, when ABC’s Martha Raddatz downplayed the
violent takeover of residential buildings in Aurora, Colo., by armed
illegal migrant gangs because “the incidents were limited to a handful
of apartment complexes,” Vance took her apart.

“Do you hear yourself?” he replied. “Only a handful of apartment
complexes were taken over by Venezuelan gangs and Donald Trump is the
problem and not Kamala Harris’ open border?”

Trump looks upon his protégé with an avuncular pride, commenting to Fox
News after Vance’s commanding performance in the VP debate earlier this
month: “JD was fantastic … it just reconfirmed my choice. There was a
brilliance to what he did.”

On the other hand, there is Walz.

In a few short weeks, the Minnesota governor has amassed an impressive
array of media flubs and downright scandals, from his “stolen valor”
exaggeration of his reserve National Guard career and peculiar lies
about his Chinese Communist Party entanglements to his feeble boasts
about being a red-blooded hunting man.

That last little vanity blew up over the weekend during a fake pheasant
hunting photo op in his home state, when he didn’t know how to load his
shotgun.

In embarrassing scenes, Walz strode around long grass in a high-viz vest
for the cameras, calling for someone to bring him a “Diet Mountain Dew”
because he wanted to “pound it down.”

Then he became camera-shy as he desperately fumbled with his weapon,
sparking a torrent of criticism on social media in which he was likened
to Looney Tunes character Elmer Fudd.

It says a lot about Harris and her campaign that they think that creepy
Walz’s Midwestern dad shtick and fake “Aw, shucks” humility will help
win back the male vote that has deserted her.

‘Chemistry’
Her deep-seated insecurity, evident in every media appearance, is behind
her fatal decision to choose Walz over Shapiro or eight other more
impressive candidates.

The fact that Shapiro was Jewish reportedly counted against him because
of the campaign’s desire to court pro-Hamas voters. But more important
was the “chemistry” between Harris and Walz.

He was abjectly subservient and there was no chance he would outshine
her with a superior intellect or mastery of the English language.

Tim Walz’s China ties are just too deep to ignore
Harris also reportedly “loved” Walz’s far-left governing record in
Minnesota, where he ran the state’s finances and education results into
the ground, presided over a draconian COVID lockdown and an extreme
abortion and woke social agenda.

Now she has reaped what she sowed as Walz has become a decided handicap
in the campaign.

After various media flubs, he was confined to his home state of
Minnesota over the weekend. He was nowhere to be seen on the Sunday
shows that Vance has made his own.

His media appearances are mainly exercises in self-harm, in which he
tries to explain away his missteps by declaring himself a “knucklehead.”

The Democratic Party handmaidens of the media are still valiantly trying
to portray him as an “everyman” and the epitome of plain-talking
conservative masculinity who proves that Harris is really a moderate.
But he is just as phony as she is.

The other day, in California, Walz announced that he and Harris planned
to abolish the Electoral College — which is no doubt true but caused
great consternation in the campaign, which does not want to scare off
voters with their real agenda.

He tried to clean up the mess Friday with an interview with ABC’s “Good
Morning America” anchor Michael Strahan, the former Giants defensive end
who was supposed to highlight “Coach Walz’s” football credibility.

But he was a flop even with the good-natured Strahan, who ended up
nailing Walz more deftly than any political reporter.

“You call yourself a knucklehead because you’ve made some statements
that just aren’t true,” Strahan said. “In a comment about ‘weapons of
war that I carried in war,’ which you didn’t. You said you were in Hong
Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre, when you weren’t. You kind of
chalked it up to bad grammar or getting the dates wrong. But your
opponents say you lied to make yourself look better. Do they have a
point?”

Walz ended up a blathering wreck, delivering word salad worthy of his
boss when trying to walk back the Electoral College blunder: “We’re out
there making the case that the campaign’s position is clear, that that’s
not their position.”